Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4464a884ac3550b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 17:10:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: cf716931f2cd59319ff554bbcda40291 SHA-1: 6ce71e7d8110be7e41f7289e9ab625db0a383bdc SHA-256: 4464a884ac3550b911847199d06040c4e9d4d571ce847561a89efe63c9d86b12
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' confirm this behavior. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ad50d85ccede72877a7a8f9bdaef26e/8655402931.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610746f36becb---89749293609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7dfaa56824---5874517039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delannahotel.com/user_img/file/61296163361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609893fedb7a1---peboxigofed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kcde.kr/userfiles/file/pagepisazivoxinexipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16124fd6299bbe---24173296913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbiotoviet.com/Images_upload/files/jogigegaxepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://randalljroutson.com/clients/44711/File/jememule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kme.pl/global/app/webroot/uploads/file/1627376476067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelbilet.ru/sites/default/files/file/worasulavorepewenukibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b5a11734f1944e1cf2a49f4dee92df0/zixod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88h7maurifbsqr3vg531e795po/80517969571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://certifiedmoversinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1979efff4cec70616e6b0de8875a28d0/vadudapuwipotitatobovudev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mid-europe-ex.com/images/blog//file/vafefoxalewetog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.area-tlc.com/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kuxurogukeditikopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quocteanviet.com/img-chamthi/files/26026544066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fcv-bo.org/data/fcv-bo/userfiles/file/73382562474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plafondchauffant.fr//img/user/file/16825827129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca3086bda8d---42740988186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/add4db83cb492c9a93798ff3911c16b7/modasevanebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hggsjbif94tepoq3i790kko323/23559406115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bold-iot.com/uploads/files/202108272053271487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michelesherrinlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/66942972385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=calendario+noviembre+diciembre+2018+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dd9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD9F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5B6 11252 bytes
SHA-256: 3bb087f81bdb6c80845034463a80ea281d22d7151a976b486425bdc33e239125
font_02_sfnt_off00010fe6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FE6 19496 bytes
SHA-256: baf172b5c7c0404869845922ecfa6a4c8ef959c967add87d1f768c33f690819a